Our Pixilation Project So Far

With our Narratives module so far, we have studied pixilation and stop motion animation. As well as looking at different pieces of stop motion work by various artists, we also had to create our own pixilation video in small groups as part of our assignment work. We had a 2 hour session to come up with an idea for the film, find an ideal location and also take the necessary pictures to produce the film. We needed to take at least 360 photos but the more the merrier. The video had to be at least 30 seconds long, which at a rate of 12 frames per second, equals 360 photos.
The people I had in my group by the way were Tebby, Dan Everitt and Umar.

Basically, we went into the cemetery near building and I decided for us to create our own spoof of the famous 'Thriller' video by Michael Jackson, but add some very crazy and unexpected twists into it like I do with my existing work on Youtube. With the video itself, I came up with the majority of the ideas for it at least, but I do owe the guys a lot of gratitude for helping me to make the video especially with the awesome poses they pulled off! :P

I'm one of those people who is better at coming up with lots of smaller, more random ideas than one long, consistent idea that runs through out the video. I think it's mainly because with both the projects I have worked on in the past (the anime spoofs and the project I am still doing now which is a parody series of a game), the videos I make for them are made up of short, random sketches. And thus, I believe from being so used to that sort of style, I automatically ended up applying it to this pixilation work.

Anyway, out of sheer excitement, I decided to make my own version of the video for this project at home, before we make a video during our session at uni. It was mainly as a basic demo to see how the video would turn out with the all the pictures put together and such. I am really pleased with the results, it has turned out pretty hilarious and I have uploaded the video to Youtube now. The video has been embedded into the blog below.


I will also provide a link later on in this post of the final video that I will have make with my next session and have it uploaded it to Youtube.